Aristophanes [writes]: "so does it seem to you that I would be hurt, o master Hermes, if I banged Opôra after so long? -- No; at any rate not if you should drink a cup of pennyroyal posset."[1] Scholion: for those who eat a lot of fruit [opôra] after a long time are hurt as well as those who have non-stop sex. Therefore since Opôra appears also to be a prostitute, [Aristophanes] is playing on both [meanings]. With the beta [the word is] blhxwni/a.[2] But those who eat a lot of fruit, if they drink a pennyroyal posset, are not hurt, through the cardiac opening of the stomach being corroded by the juice. So that the pungency might be stopped, they used to take a [drink] of pennyroyal.
Also [sc. attested in the form] blhxwni/as, [meaning] a cup.[3]